Tagged With: scope of protection

This journal article outlines the ways in which UK copyright law prioritises traditional forms of visual art over contemporary forms like performance art, arguing that a focus on moral rights rather than economic rights could provide one way of radically reforming the law.

This journal article considers the creativity requirement in the unanimous US Supreme Court decision in Feist Publications Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. The author argues that the requirement for creativity in addition to originality to qualify for protection will eventually lead to both under- and over-protection of works, either through market failure or through the expansion of the scope of protection.